A mostly oceanic isola consisting of a series of islands and archipelagoes [Le Caillou, Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantome), Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, North Arcade Islands.]
Population 850 million
Le Caillou
the largest island in the North-East
Capital: Revachol [80km radius]
Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantome)
Far to the south west
City: Olduvai
Ozonne
Cities: Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux
Laurentide
City: Deora of the Seven Seas
Archipelagos
Cities: Croyant-Morain, Villiers
OTHER ISOLAS (Azimuths)
Mundi - North
Graad - North East
Samara - East
Seol - West
NOTES: We love scale references! This doesn't add the most details like the number of islands or the orientation of all of them but we'll take what we can get. There may be more detail in Joyce's Reality Lowdown talk.
Map Wall - Several maps have been attached to a bulletin board hidden inside the alcove. They're held up by small pins. The board has come loose from one corner.
Map Wall - The maps look old and faded. Your eye catches a map of Insulinde, a map of Revachol, and a map of Martinaise.
You - Look at the map of Insulinde.
Map Wall - This large map displays archipelagos. You see a constellation of small dots on the light blue emptiness of the Insulindic ocean. The largest, in the northeast, is "Le Caillou" (you are here). Another, far away in the southwest -- "Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantôme)".
You - What else?
Map Wall - Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, Archipelagos, North Arcade Islands... all just specks of dust on the vastness of the Insulindic. On the edges of the map, the colour fades into a blur of dotted lines. Black and white.
Visual Calculus - Disintegrating into mathematics.
Inland Empire - In the northeast a dust mite stands on the north coast of Caillou. In a bookstore. It's you.
Shivers - Radiating outwards from you -- the Suzerain Revachol. With a radius of 80 kilometres. Still, the crown jewel of this isola would be barely visible.
You - Squint first -- can you see *cities* on the islands?
Map Wall - You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas...
Empathy - Lost little pearls of light. Tiny fires in the dark.
Encyclopedia - 850 million people live on these little dots. An oceanic world of culture and commerce, torn apart by history.
You - Look at the edges.
Map Wall - The ocean breaks apart into a tangle of cosines and azimuths, all pointing into pale nothingness. *Mundi* is the north azimuth; *Graad* is the northeast azimuth; *Samara* is the east azimuth; *Seol* is the west azimuth. *Isolas*, they're called.
Inland Empire - Connections to other worlds. Worlds past the Insulindian, unknown to you. You only know you've never been there.
Logic - 850 million people live on these tiny dots. An oceanic world of culture and commerce, torn apart by history.
ok this post does have me thinking more strongly about kras mazov's suicide and its aftermath... there's the section in chapter 6 about post-revolution Graad
But the biggest of the failures isn’t how Mazov’s world-revolution became a bloodbath and then a loss, nor how the bones of lover-rebels are now being displayed in the waiting room for aromatherapy. Its internal unrest subdued, Graad became a world power, a giant state; its cities proliferated, and from orbit the light of this tumour shines like a entwined, sparkling thread. Entire nations are vanishing from the world map.
[...]
The city-slash-zone-of-ecological-catastrophe, the post-megalopolis and pre-necropolis of human settlement, the penultimate stage of development—the Polyfabricate—stretches along the border of Zsiemsk and the Yugo-Graad. The monstrosity absorbs the historical centres of Zsiemsk—the royal old town of Ferdydurke, the pine-tree parks of Lenka.
and later on in the end of the book we talk about Noo, and how the capitol of Mirova has been overtaken by the monster of post-communist Graad. and i'm thinking about HDB breaking burke's knees with his ledger. thinking about how the failure of the revolution and liberalisation leads to so much more pain and suffering as alienated people are provoked to hurt each other.
Reiki werkt met energieën die voor de verlichte mens, in de tijd van de computer en wetenschap, niet te vatten zijn. Esoterische kennis is nodig om de onbekende verschijnselen rondom ons een plaats te geven in de kosmos. Iedereen heeft het vermogen om met Reiki te werken. Willen we Reiki gebruiken voor onszelf of voor anderen, dan moeten bepaalde gebieden van…
Reiki werkt met energieën die voor de verlichte mens, in de tijd van de computer en wetenschap, niet te vatten zijn. Esoterische kennis is nodig om de onbekende verschijnselen rondom ons een plaats te geven in de kosmos. Iedereen heeft het vermogen om met Reiki te werken. Willen we Reiki gebruiken voor onszelf of voor anderen, dan moeten bepaalde gebieden van…
De traditionele stap om bij het behandelen van goniometrische verhoudingen eerst over te gaan van hoeken in graden naar hoeken in radialen blijkt een lastige stap voor leerlingen en aanstaande studenten. Vandaar ook dat ik in mijn Appendix bij Wiswijs (later bewerkt door de Open Universiteit) die hele eerste fase oversla. Bijkomende reden: de beoogde doelgroep heeft voor…
'You are the sun. The sun doesn’t move, this is what it does. You are the Earth. The Earth is here for a start, and then the Earth moves around the sun. And now, we’ll have an explanation that simple folks like us can also understand, about immortality. All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign. And just imagine, in this infinite sonorous silence, everywhere is an impenetrable darkness.'
